Handle for dish-pans.



G. 1f. PFALZGRAP. l HANDLE POR DISH PANS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7, 1909.

933,487` Patented sept. 7, 1909.

Witwe/.may I I* Kur CHARLES F. PFALZGRAF, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

HANDLE For. nIs'n-PANS. i

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

Appncamn mea January 7,1969. serial No.y 471,072.

attached to or adjacentV the ,lateral `rim`` flanges of vessels such for example as dish pans. f

a handle of such improved construction that the same may be formed from a single piece of sheet metal and which may extend beneath the rim-flange of the vessel so as to lie close against the same thereby permitting the pansto be nested closely.

Another object is to provide a vhandle that may be clipped over the rim of the vessel in such a way that its clipping-members and the wall of the vessel may be engaged by a rivet to secure them together.

With these and other objects in view the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is aside elevation of a pan to which my improved handle is attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through one end of the handle and a portion ofthe vessel wall,-the sect-ion being taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a perspective view of the handle detached. Fig. 4, is a sectional plan view through the handle showing the clipping members and the flange of the vessel,-the section being taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view through portions of several vessels showing the same nested,-the handles of the vessels being arranged in different vertical planes to permit the Vessels to fit close together.

Referring to the drawing the numeral, 1, designates the Vessel proper, and, 2, the horizontal or laterally-projecting flange at the upper edge thereof. This flange is provided with a coil, 8, at its outer edge for the pur-l pose of reinforcing the same, except atj the point where the handle is to be attached, at which point the edge is merely folded back as at, 4, produced by merely mashing the coil at that point.

The handle is formed from a single piece of sheet metal and comprises a tubular grip portion, 5, and downwardly-projecting ends,

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One object'of the-invention is to provide i atv opposite ends of the grip portion.

VThese ends are provided with corrugations, 7, Awhich extend up and down and which serve to `strengthen the handle. By reference to Fig. 3, it will be seen that the ends of the handle have inwardly-projecting flangeportions, 8, which are provided with downwardly-curved edges, 9, and perforations, 10, .therein and adjacent said edges. It Will be seen that the anges, 8, are substantially horizontal, that the ends, 6, incline upwardly fromsaid flanges and that the tubular .grip portion, 5, curlsoutwardly away from the inclined plane of lthe ends. A finger or clip plate, 11, also projects laterally from the ends and has position substantially parallel with the flange, 8. This clip plate is provided with a curved edge, 12, and a perforation, 13, adjacent said curved edge. In order to form the clip plate I punch the metal from the inclined end portions of the handle at a point between the corrugations, 7, and turn that metal forwardly over the fiange portion, 8.

The lateral flange, 2, of the vessel at the point where the flanges, 8, and clip-plates, 11, engage, as explained, has a flattened portion, 4, so that the flanges, 8, may seat up close against the bottom side of the fiange, 2.

en in position, the lianges, 8, of the4 handle will project beneath the flange, 2, of the vessel while the clip-plates, 11, will project over said flange, 2, thus clamping said vessel flange between them. When 1n this clamped position a rivet, 14, may be passed through the perforation, 13, of the clip-plate, then through a similar perforation in the vessel flange, 2, and finally through the perforation, 10, in the ange, 8, and when riveted as at 15 on the under side will rigidly secure the handle and vesseltogether. It will be seen by reference to Fig. 2, that the flange, 8, lies close against the under side of the vessel flange and that the rivet, 14, is so placed that its head, 15, will lie in the bend of the handle flange, 8.

Inpacking or nesting the pans the handles willnot be placed one directly over another but to one side of each other so that the tubular grip' portions, 5, will not contact with each other.

It has been-found in practice that strong' handles constructed as herein shown and described can be'produced by placing two thin metal sheets together and then stamping out and forming the handles from the two plies edge being flattened at a plurality of points,k

of ashandle alsohavinglazlateral lla-nge that extendsparallel 'andincontact with flattenied portions of the vvessel flangeand a rivet extending through the -two flanges.

2. Thecombination `with a vessel having a lateral-'flange at its rim edge, of a handle l-having a grip portion and downwardlyextending ends and each :handle end;pro

'vided with laterally-"proj eoting :spaced-'apart clamping Amembers which straddle .the rinilange -0f the vessel and a rivet .passing through thelspaeedf'apart clamping members and alsothroughnthefrim flange of'thevessel to secure the sametogether.

3. The-combination with a vessel 'having Ea lateral 'flange,of a handle having downwardly-extending ends fand eaoh having a lateral flange at its lower extremity to project beneath the vessel flange and said ends also'having a clamping plate punched therefrom which extends over the vessel flange, and a rivet for securing the clamping plate vessel flange and the end flange together.

4. The'coinbination with a vesselhaving a 'tapering wall with a laterally-projecting rim-flange, of a handle having a horizontal grip portion above the vessel flange and with spaced-apart vportions which extend downwardly 4freni the lgrip portion and each spaced-apart` downwardly-extending portion having'a flateralflange with a downwardlycurvedend which extends beneath and lies close against thebottoin sidefof the vesselflange with'its curved end againstithe tapering -wallof' the vessel, andarivet-extending through thevvessel walland also through the curved end of the handlei'lange.

'In'testiniony whereof 4I alix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

lCHARLES F. PFALZGRAF. Vitnesses:

iGr. 'FERDINAND Voor,

VGHAS. yB. ,MANN 

